Petition for a Realistic Solution to RMT's

[Syrehn]

I've been logged in for less than 20 minutes. Doing my routine morning things... feeding the chocobo's, mini cacpot etc. and I've already received 5+ RMT tells. Seriously SE implement some additional counter measures. There have been plenty of great suggestions. If you don't want to do that then at least increase our Blacklist limit... I'm almost at 200 AGAIN (98% from RMT)! >.<

[LandricFrey]

I've been logged in for less than 20 minutes. Doing my routine morning things... feeding the chocobo's, mini cacpot etc. and I've already received 5+ RMT tells. Seriously SE implement some additional counter measures. There have been plenty of great suggestions. If you don't want to do that then at least increase our Blacklist limit... I'm almost at 200 AGAIN (98% from RMT)! >.<

I would be happy with just a response, an agreement that there is a problem and they are indeed working on improving their chat logs/other systems to improve the situation. This complete silence on the matter is disturbing.

[Mugiawara]

It's getting bad in Balmung.
Anyone else?

[Gilantiz]

I just started playing FFXIV again since the initial release and the first thing I had to do was figure out how to make a new tab for Tell's and mute the notifications for it. That is not something a new person to the game should have to do immediately once they start learning how to play the game. You can blacklist them, but it is a constant battle. It's obvious that the blacklist function doesn't report them in any way. I would prefer a Report Spam option that would send CS a report on the player and blacklist them as well. I stopped playing FFXI primarily because of the constant RMT folks camping NM and normal player's had very little chance at getting any kind of quality loot without spending millions of gil, which would just fuel their sales. I hope the dev's can find a solution to this issue because I can't even use their tell system to talk to people in game.

[LandricFrey]

It's sad that you'd more likely get a temp ban for naming someone on the forums, even if they are an obvious RMT, than the RMT themselves getting banned.

[Violyre]

It's been suggested that RMT spam would be lessened by some sort of character creation restriction in the form of limiting how many characters you can create in X time. The disadvantage to this would be, any new character wanting to create a new character because they didn't like how their character looks after viewing it in game, wouldn't be able to.

But what about using a Captcha system? I mean, it's used to prevent automated account creation in the internet browser, why not use it to prevent automated character creation?

CAPTCHA might stop them for a couple minutes until they figure out the system. IMO, it's the worst type of security available. I ran a personal forum for awhile, and it didn't stop any of them. I'm more of a fan of a question related to something a bot wouldn't know (That might be difficult for FFXIV, I always made it something people involved with the activity would know, and that'd hurt first-time players and people that hadn't progressed.) or a special checkbox that is invisible by normal means, but a bot may check/uncheck it as part of its program even if it's not there.

[Kewitt]

Ban .... CC, SE account, IP address, Stop Tell pre level 5, Must complete a quest to use tell, Right click report, both side Sell and Buyer. known VPN/proxy address ranges.

My huuby gets 3-4 an evening on balmung where I may get 2 a week... playing same times.

Max tell per mins 5-10.

[Violyre]

Must complete a quest to use tell

Make the amount of tells you can send out per hour based on your main story progression. Adjust as needed with each storyline patch. Add that a person can talk to someone unlimited if the person is on their friend list. Add in deny and blacklist friend request.

Look for players that send tells full of punctuations and brackets and numbers in excessive amounts. Because I'm tired of seeing [[[[[[ģ1˩4cΆϛϞ.fak3]]]]]]]]]]

[Mahri]

Right click > Report for > Spam
10+ reports: GM ticket generated, chat logs saved.
25+ reports: Reported account muted, possibly temp banned.

I'd say more but honestly the more I think about the subject, the angrier I get.

SQUARE-ENIX. WE ARE BEING HARASSED. DO SOMETHING. AND SAY SOMETHING.

[SongJoohee]

Right click > Report for > Spam
10+ reports: GM ticket generated, chat logs saved.
25+ reports: Reported account muted, possibly temp banned.

Yes this seems like a perfectly safe and non-abusable solution.

Some of the "solutions" on this thread are genuinely laughable and it's good that you aren't in game design.

Ban people or restricting their chat when they black listed by a certain number of players? Lol. I know an entire FC of people on my server that hate me because I named & shamed them as Triple Triad tournament cheaters on the forums. Really think the same kind of people wouldn't abuse these kind of systems? Any kind of system that let's an organized group of players cause mutes/bans on people they don't like is an awful idea. Players have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted with any system that can be abused easily.

The suggestion by Dillia is just amazing /s. Let's not only promote RMT - by literally encouraging players to buy from the websites, but also cannibalize our own business model, all to ban one account! Freakin' genius. I wonder why no game has ever done that before, there's absolutely no way it can backfire.

Taking on the websites - lawyers aren't cheap. These websites also tend to have many websites run by the same group under different names. You take one down, they make another.

One of the few good ideas is to add an option to only allow friends to whisper you. I've been after that for a while.

It's really amusing that people on this thread seem to think SE do literally nothing to combat RMT. You really think that? You do know why they're so quiet when it comes to fighting botters/rmt right? Because it's fucking stupid for a dev to publicly post about what they are doing to fight it. It makes it even easier to RMT to avoid being caught. Every MMO I've ever player has issues with these kind of issues. If you think SE are gonna come out over night with an efficient and permanent solution I'm afraid you're very, very wrong.

Other games have literally changed the entire back-end of how a game works, and you know what happened? The bots were broken. For a week or two. Then they fixed the bots to work on the 'new' version of the game and they were back in action. It is not a 1-2-Fix.

And btw, PSA: Characters aren't deleted when an account is banned. Just because the RMT you blist aren't becoming (deleted)s doesn't mean the accounts aren't being banned. Characters just get deleted after a while in order to free up space to create a new character that isn't blisted by as many people.